Karsten Januschke

Conductor & Coach

During Oper Frankfurt's 2014/15 season Karsten Januschke has conducted performances of La Bohème, Hänsel und Gretel and Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral. Last season he conducted the new production of Reimann's Die Gespenstersonate/Ghost Sonata in the Bockenheimer Depot. In 2014 he made his debuts with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken in Kaiserslautern and the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, with Emmerich Kálmán's Die Zirkusprinzessin/The Circus Princess, and the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt. This summer he leads Sergej Banewitsch's Die Schneekönigin/The Snow Queen in Eisenstadt's Schloss Esterházy. Karsten Januschke joined Oper Frankfurt as a soloists' coach in 2008/09 and has been working here as a Kapellmeister since the 2013/14 season. Other recent engagements have included concerts with the Slovakian Philharmonic and Frankfurt Chamber Brass, with whom he has enjoyed a close relationship for some years. He has assisted some of the worlds leading conductors, including Kirill Petrenko, Bertrand de Billy and Seiji Ozawa and assists regularly at in Bayreuth, most recently assisting Christian Thielemann in 2012.